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Its rainy today and it's made me feel like I should be doing absolutely nothing.  Like I'm just waiting for something big to happen, like the snow coming.  Sometimes I feel like I have rainy days in my faith where I get tired of waiting and so I curl up and do nothing.  I don't talk to people and I don't even wear a smile on my face that says 'Hey, I'm a Christian!', I just sit and do nothing. 
Enter into the picture my desire to go to the missions field.  I really want to go NOW, in other words, I'm tired of waiting.  My rainy day has come and its come to stay and for a while I gave up and decided not to do anything.  But my plans are changing and I'm going to "worship in the waiting" and continue to give God glory even though its rainy and cold and I'm waiting for something big to happen.  I can be doing things now to further the kingdom and I may learn more than I'd ever dreamed and God will continue to bless me even while I wait on a rainy day.

Dear Gloomy Rainy Horribly Nasty Cold Arctic Windy Day,
Bring it on.
Love Jennifer

Where you are...

So at Praise and Worship we sang the lines "I wanna be with you where you are, I wanna be with you where you are Jesus."  And for a moment I felt really, Really, REALLY homesick!  I felt like I was in the farthest possible place from where my Savior was, physically.  I felt like I had told myself enough times that Christ was only at camp, or only at home that I truly believed that.  Then I looked around and realized something; Christ is always with me.  Always.  And no matter where I am he's going to be there, it all depends on whether I actually take the time to be with Him that really matters.  After realizing that, I didn't feel nearly so homesick! =) Because no matter where I go, I'm always home and I'll always have brothers and sisters and mothers and fathers, my family in Christ, all around the globe!

~Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellowman has fulfilled the law.~ Romans 13:8

Spectator sports...

"Life's not a spectator sport"  Again Disney movies come to the rescue!  This time its from the Hunchback of Notre Dame and also from a speaker we had in chapel today.  He talked about how we can sit in dorms and kitchens and classrooms and have deep theological discussions but what good does it do if we don't ever take our own advice!  If we never put into practice the ideas and thoughts that rush around in our deep discussions what good are they doing?  Faith isn't about feeling safe, a lot of times its about that heart-thumping feeling right before you jump, before you take a chance.  We can't fix the world in a day and its not US thats fixing the world, its God working through us and our willing hearts, our desire to learn, and to be led by Christ.
Let's get in the game!!

~By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheiritance obeyed and went even though he did not know where he was going~ Hebrews 11:8

hakuna matata! ;)

This is my favorite philosophy of all time! It means no worries!!  For a long time I thought that this translated into "no responsiblities" but the more I think about it the more I get a different message.  This message is more like, "Have faith and you'll still have responsibility but Hakuna Matata!"  Christ has shouldered all of our burdens and worries so we can live fully by the motto Hakuna Matata! = )  Good-bye fancy clothes and diamond rings!!  So long super nice car! ~Therefore I tell you not to worry about what you will eat or drink or what you will wear.  Is not life more important that food and the body more important than clothes!~ Matthew 6:24-25  Hakuna Matata!  No worries!!

~And who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?~ Matthew 6:27